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FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1908. 



INVESTMENT IN THE ALASKA FISHERIES IN 1908— Continued. 



■ Aggregate length of 60,452 yards. 



PRODUCTS. 



Aggregate length of 66,150 yards. 



3 Aggregate length of 265,056 yards. 



The total quantity of products was 217,813,415 pounds, valued at 

 $11,847,443, a gain of 39,455,114 pounds and $1,687,260 over 1907. 

 Except for fertilizer, oil, furs, and hides, the weights are round 

 weights, or the weight of products when first taken from the water; 

 the prepared products weights are shown in the subsidiary tables 



of the report. Flounders, pollock, rock cod, whitefish, whale meat, 

 and seaweed appear in the table for the first time this year. Whale- 

 bone and walrus ivory are the only products reported from arctic 

 Alaska. As has been stated, it was found an impossibility to secure 

 even approximate data as to the persons engaged or the investment 

 in the hunting of aquatic animals (except sea otter and fur seals), 

 which is general among the natives. 



PRODUCTS OF ALASKA FISHERIES IN 1908. 



